Re: Prototype git commit viewer

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 10, 2005, 00:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20050510000357.GG15712@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <17023.57405.35272.46557@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Dear diary, on Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:12:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> told me that...

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> Petr Baudis writes:
> 
> > What are its advantages to git-viz?
> 
> As a kernel developer, when I do a pull from Linus' tree, the question
> I want to ask is "who has been making what changes?"  That's why gitk
> shows the headline and author of each of 30 commits in one screenful.
> AFAICS from the screenshots, git-viz doesn't give me that density of
> information (and neither did bk revtool, for that matter).
> 
> It seems to me that git-viz makes the graph topology the primary thing
> and the details of the commits the secondary thing.  I want it the
> other way around.

Yes, it looks indeed pretty nice, I have to say after actually looking at it.

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